POWYS’ award-winning water and soft drinks manufacturer Radnor Hills has been trialling its new vitamin D spring water drink with a local care home. Staff and residents at The Oaks Care Home in Newtown were put on a two-week trial of Radnor Vits, the first vitamin D flavoured spring water in Tetra Pak packages. The new drink from the Knighton-based company has been designed to help people easily achieve their daily vitamin D dose. About one in five people in the UK are deficient in vitamin D and numbers are thought to have increased during lockdown with people staying indoors.
Following the success of the initial installation, RMGroup has since supplied another pair of ABB end-of line palletizing systems at the site. A second was installed on Radnor’s tetra pack line, the requirement being to palletize paperboard cartons from dual production lines at a rate of 6 cases per minute; a third line was installed on Radnor’s canning line, involving a much higher output of 24 packs, 12 of which needed to be palletized on euro pallets, at 20 cases per minute.
RMGroup’s mechanical design and technical department recommended the use of a bespoke gripper, thereby enabling the robot to stack the packs onto pallets at the desired rate.
WALES’ leading family-owned branded soft drinks company is launching a new product to help customers to get their daily vitamin D dose. Radnor Hills is introducing Radnor Vits, which launches today (March 1) on St David’s Day, is the first vitamin D flavoured spring water in Tetra Pak packages. Designed to be straw-free, you can drink it straight from the pack. Everyone is advised to take a vitamin D supplement between October and March, when the sun is too low in the sky for our bodies to naturally make vitamin D from sunlight. Vits is a low-calorie sugar-free drink which is also suitable for vegetarians and vegans. It comes in two flavours: lemon and lime and apple and raspberry.
A MINERAL water company on the Herefordshire border is planning to extend its premises as it thrives and prospers . Radnor Hills Water Company, near Knighton, is bidding to extend its existing warehouse at Heartsease Farm to provide additional storage and distributions facilities. An agent acting on Radnor Hills’ behalf said in a application to Powys Council: “Radnor Hills Water Company Ltd business continues to thrive and prosper, now employing approximately 200 people, providing much needed rural employment. “It is one of Powys county and Wales’ great business success stories. Due to its continuing growth, Radnor Hills requires additional storage and distribution facilities, that can be achieved by this proposed construction of an additional bay to the existing warehouse.